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You're only as good as your last book.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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